Dialect construction with paucals
Paucal numerals два, три, четыре, and those containing them as components (e.g., двадцать два, двадцать три, etc.) have a peculiar syntactic relations with nouns. In the dialects of the Russian-Belarusian border region, nouns of the masculine and neuter genders can take the genitive singular case when used with these numerals, as in standard Russian (два мужика, два окна) or the nominative singular case, as in Belarusian (два мужики, два окны).
